Phd & Master Thesis

No. of Ph.D. & Master’s Students Guidance: Organic Synthesis and Molecular Engineering Group


Ph.D. students Completed: 6 (Six)
Ph.D. students Ongoing: 8 (Eight)

  1. Nabakumar Bera (2022) – Title : Synthesis of Heterocyclic Molecules Employing Metal Catalysed Atom-economic Couplings and Sustainable Dearomatization Techniques
  2. Puspendu Kuila (2022) – Title: Tribromides in Oxidative Dearomatisation: A Toolbox to Solve Molecular Complexities
  3. Sushree Ranjan Sahoo (2020) – Title: Synthetic Efforts toward Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Generations Employing Dearomatisation, Alkene and Alkyne Intrigues
  4. Sagarika Behera (2020) – Title: Synthetic Approaches Towards Biologically Active Heterocycles Employing Catalytic Strategies’’
  5. Nilendri Rout (2019) – Title: Solving Molecular Complexities with Oxidative Dearomatisation and Transition metal catalysis
  6. Manoj Kumar Ghosh (2018) – Title: New Intrigues with Oxidative Dearomatisation and Related Strategies, Presently: National Postdoc fellowship- University of Warsaw Poland

MASTER THESIS SUPERVISED: 17 (Seventeen)

Two Year Masters Project Student Ongoing: 2 (Two)

  1. Ruthenium Catalysed Synthesis of Synthesis of Azepines – Ipsita Majhi (2021-22)
  2. BF3·Et2O‑Promoted Cascade Reactions: Direct Synthesis of Sulfinylated Spiro-trieneone – Sangam Jha (2021-22)
  3. Visible Light Assisted Oxidation at Benzylic Position of Homologated Ynones with Aerobic Oxygen, Leading to Diketone Synthesis – Ankush Kumar (2020-21)
  4. Synthetic Attempts with Tribromides towards Dearomatisation – Sayan Halder (2018-2020)
  5. Towards the sysnthesis of Tocopherol – Kunika Gupta (2018-2020)
  6. Gold(l)-Catalyzed Atom-Economic Synthesis of 2-Substituted indole via 5-endo-dig Cyclization – Ms. Moni Singh
  7. Synthesis of 1-ethylpyridine tribromide; Utilization in Spirofurano Naphthalone Synthesis : Footsteps towards Asymmetric Synthesis – Mr. Devasish Sood
  8. Halo-azido Ketones : Synthesis, Applications and Activity – Ms. Prithwa Das
  9. Asymmetric Synthesis of Tocopherol and Tocotrienol family employing C-2 methylation of 2-carboxy-4-chromanones – Mr. Sudeep Sarkar (2017-18), Presently: Ph.D. fellowship University of Warsaw Poland
  10. Asymmetric Synthesis of Tocopherol (Vitamin-E) Employing C-2 Methylation of 2-Carboxy-4-Chromanones – Mr. Subhradip Kundu (2017-18), Presently: Ph.D. fellowship University of Strosbourg, France
  11. Approach towards the Synthesis of Biologically Active Chromone Systems – Mr. Chandak Adhikari (2016-17)
  12. Synthetic Efforts towards Medicinally Important Aryl Naphthofurans and Benzofurans Mediated by Quaternary Ammonium Salt – Mr. Suchit Gupta (2016-17)
  13. Trials towards functionalising α-ketols – Miss. Samapika Mishra (2014-16)
  14. Concise synthesis of Napthoquinones – Miss. V. Chandurani (2014-16)
  15. Attempts towards total synthesis of spiroliganones – Mr. Punabasu Bhattacharya (2013-2015)
  16. Efforts towards alkyne insertion reactions via Oxidative Dearomatisation – Mr. Rahul Kumar (2013-2015)
  17. Facile Hyvervalent Iodine mediated Oxidative dearomatization of Naphthols – Mr. Sushree Ranjan Sahoo (2012-2014)

Completed Project Interns

Abhishek Bissoyi 
Present Status: BS-MS, IISER Behrampur

Swetarani Patel 
Present Status: M.Sc – SG Womens College, Rourkela

Sandhya Rani Padhy (2019) 
Present Status: M.Sc – SG Womens College, Rourkela

Soham Ghosh (2019) 
Present Status: M.Sc. – BHU

Puja Kumari (2019) 
Present Status: M.Sc. – BIT Mesra

Anindita Mukherjee (2019) 
Present Status: M.Sc. – BIT Mesra

Sudeep Sarkar (2016 -18) 
Present Status: Ph.D. at University of Warsaw, Poland 2018, Postdoc: University of Bordeaux

Subhradip Kundu (2016 -18) 
Present Status: Ph.D. at University of Geneva, Switzerland

B. Sharmistha (2018) 
Present Status: M.Sc. at IISER Kolkata

Ananya Mishra (2018) 
Present Status: Centurion University of Technology and Management, Bhubhaneswar

Rajat Kumar Singh (2017) 
Present Status: IISER Trivandrum

Suchit Gupta (2016 -17) 
Present Status: Assistant Professor, FIIT JEE

Chandak Adhikari (2015-17)
Present Status: Assistant Professor, FIT JEE

Shubhajit Basak (May – July 2017)
Present Status: M.Sc. Student at NBU

Diptangshu Hardikar (May – June 2017)
Present Status: M.Sc. Student at Central University, Bilaspur

V.Chandurani (2015-16)
Present Status:—

Samapika Mishra (2015-16)
Present Status:

Punarbasu Bhattacharya (2014-15)
Present Status: Scientific Officer @ Power Grid Corporation

Rahul Kumar (2013-15)
Present Status: Faculty @ Akash Institute, Delhi

Sarasija Das (2014)
Present Status: Ph.D. student @ IISER, Kolkata

Devjanee Bardhan (2014) 
Present Status: Ph.D. student @IIT, Madras

Sarbeswar Sethi (2014-15)
Present Status: —

Sujata Mahapatra (2013-14)
Present Status: Ph.D. student@ Novozymes, Denmark

Prajna Moharana (2013-14)
Present Status: —-